Award winning broadcast journalist B.J. Finnell travels the U.S., exploring the unique, amazing, odd, hilarious and compelling stories from people in cities, towns and villages across America.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAward winning broadcast journalist B.J. Finnell travels the U.S., exploring the unique, amazing, odd, hilarious and compelling stories from people in cities, towns and villages across America.
Recent episodes include "Testing in the Time of Titan" (27 August 2025, 44 minutes), "A Look at the Future" (4 December 2023, 23 minutes), and "Words Matter" (9 November 2023, 24 minutes).
Take Me Through It publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 33 episodes.
Booking probability for Take Me Through It is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Take Me Through It requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Take Me Through It's contact route on record: verified email.
Take Me Through It is a society podcast with 33 episodes published.
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Episode #1
<p>BJ and cousin Mike talk with their Uncle Bill Shaughnessy who, 65 years ago had a front row seat to the development of the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, Titan 1. Bill tells a personal and extraordinary...
Episode #5
<p>BJ wraps up his conversation with local news legend Mike Archer about the challenges facing news outlets and the journalists who staff them.</p>
Episode #4
<p>B.J. continues his conversation with Mike Archer of www.thearcherjournal.com, discussing the overuse of cliches and misuse of words in today's journalism. Can the four C's save our language?</p>
Episode #3
<p>Why do Americans have an issue with trusting journalists? Is it falling revenues at local television stations and newspapers, forcing them to do more with less? Is it inexperience, lack of institutional knowledge or...
<p>BJ finally follows the advice so many have given him over the decades: take a hike! This time he drives and walks up to a bygone symbol of Vermont history, ascending new heights on a spectacular autumn afternoon.</p>
Episode #1
<p>Back by popular demand? BJ has moved on from local TV and is blowing the dust off the podcast after a 5 year hiatus. Does anyone care? Can he create interesting content? Will anyone listen?? Enjoy episode one of a...
Episode #25
<p>TV weatherman Spencer Christian had it all: A great job, a great family, a great life. But he nearly lost everything to compulsive gambling, before he found the courage to change his life. BJ and Spencer discuss...
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<p>BJ attends the annual commemoration for the USS San Francisco, which was involved in one of the most hellacious, courageous battles in American military history 76 years ago at Guadalcanal.</p>
Episode #24
<p>Benjamin Zander, Founder, Music Director and Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestras, discusses the world's greatest music; how it uplifts mankind and teaches us all about love...
<p>Former NFL player and now local news anchor Vai Sikahema recounts his transition from the NFL to TV, coming to America at the age of 8, and the important role religion plays in his life. Second of two parts.</p>
<p>Vai Sikahema forever won the hearts of Philadelphia Eagles fans more than two decades ago. He's now a television news anchor, whose front row seat to history includes an impending nuclear attack heading right for him...
<p>Bill Finch has spent his most of his life in public service; State Senator, Mayor of Connecticut's biggest city, Executive Director of the New York State Turnpike Authority. But now, Bill is using his love of science...
<p>Training teenagers to be ready for the next disaster my not be part of a regular school curriculum, but two Connecticut high schools are doing just that. Fox 61 reporter Jim Altman joins BJ to talk about an...
<p>Fires. Murders. Corruption. Bad Weather. Each among the storylines we expect every day when we tune into the local television news. But the TV news operations that stand out, take the time and make the effort to also...
<p>FDR was one of our great presidents. Eleanor was our greatest First Lady. In many ways, it all started when Franklin's mother built them a grand home in midtown Manhattan, a home that still stands today, not just as...
<p>Should we return to the Moon? Plan a mission to Mars? What is the impact and risks of long term human space travel? In this Best of 2017 episode of Take Me Through It, B.J. and Mike (producer of the movie "Inner...
<p>One of the greatest Christmas movies of all time has a back story as funny and interesting as the film itself. Check out the story behind "Gremlins" in a Take Me Through It episode from the 2017 archives.</p>
<p>B.J. continues his Best of 2017 episodes with a look back to summer, and the story of how a young boy raised in the heart of Red Sox Nation became (gasp!) a fan of the New York Yankees.</p>
Episode #15
<p>"Decency Wins." That two-word tweet from a Republican U.S. Senator reacting to Democrat Doug Jones' victory in the Alabama U.S. Senate race, brought to mind one of our favorite 2017 episodes of Take Me Through It...
<p>B.J and the Take Me Through It team count down to 2018 by looking back at some of the more memorable episodes from 2017. This time, B.J. recounts the time he bumped into the President of the United States on his...
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